Oprah Won't Let Go

Rascal Flatts was at Chicago’s United Center last night to tape a surprise appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

The band was tapped by Oprah’s producers to perform on one of their highly-anticipated finale shows “Surprise Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular Part 1.” Their performance of “I Won’t Let Go,” from their current Big Machine Records album, NOTHING LIKE THIS is slated to air in the May 23rd episode; check local listings for times.

The show’s staff and producers expressed to the band their desire to have this song performed as the sentiments in the lyrics express their feelings for Oprah.

The Oprah Winfrey Show will air the last new episode of its 25-year run on Wednesday, May 25, 2011.

J. C. Penney Has A Rascal Flatts Bonus Track

You can get a preview of the song "American Living" here, but if you want to play it on the radio, it looks like you may need to go to Penney's and buy a copy of the LP being sold there only (and of course know that you'll be playing the new JCP jingle).

Need an idea that would dominate a summer concert? I love the "Rascal Flatts Towers" being constructed by fans, using kits provided by the group. Could you get your brand on them somehow?

Rascal Flatts And Jeffrey Steele To Become Lifetime Nashville Songwriters Association Members

NSAI recognizes multi-platinum Lyric Rascal Flatts (Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus & Joe Don Rooney) and prominent songwriter Jeffrey Steele on becoming the organization’s newest Lifetime Members.

“Our friends in Rascal Flatts and the amazing Jeffrey Steele are expressing their support for the advocacy work NSAI does on behalf of songwriters and the music industry,” said NSAI Executive Director Barton Herbison. “Rascal Flatts and Jeffrey have been longtime supporters of both NSAI and intellectual property rights. They illustrate the fact that ‘creators’ are the ones changing the laws through NSAI.”

If you ever have someone from your local area express interest in going to Music City in hopes of getting into the business, NSAI is a great place to test the waters and learn what it takes. You don't have to live in Nashville to belong or attend their events.

They Have More Than Earned The Right To Release Their Greatest Hits (BUT..)

After spending more than twenty-five weeks at the top of the radio charts and selling more than 17 million albums while aggressively touring at the same time, Rascal Flatts, will release its first ever greatest hits collection on Tuesday, October 28. Early shipments include three limited edition Christmas standards

Greatest Hits Volume 1 gives fans a look back at thirteen of the band’s biggest hits and chronicles Rascal Flatts’s rise as the biggest selling country band of the decade. The project highlights the band's best songs that have made them the CMA, ACM, CMT and AMA reigning Group of the Year for several years running.

Early shipments of the band’s Greatest Hits Volume 1 will deliver something cool for the Rascal Flatts fan. It will come packaged in a foil embossed 2-disc package that contains not only thirteen singles but also three newly recorded Christmas songs as bonus tracks – the holiday classic “White Christmas,” “Jingle Bell Rock” and an a capella version of “I’ll Be Home For Christmas.”

RASCAL FLATTS GREATEST HITS VOLUME 1 TRACK LISTING
Prayin' For Daylight
I'm Movin' On
These Days
I Melt
Mayberry
Feels Like Today
Bless The Broken Road
Fast Cars And Freedom
Skin (Sarabeth)
My Wish
What Hurts The Most
Stand
Life Is A Highway

LIMITED EDITION BONUS TRACKS
White Christmas
Jingle Bell Rock
I'll Be Home For Christmas

Sadly, there's nothing new on this LP other than the bonus Holiday tracks. Hopefully, since "Here" has already been out for seven weeks and isn't on this collection, they'll have some new music for us early in 2009.

Country's core listeners and Rascal Flatts fans need as much fresh, new music and artists as possible, to keep all of our careers vital and growing (now that we know that none of us who still have jobs is retiring anytime soon!)...

Rascal Flatts: Never Forgetting What Got You "Here"

You, the road and the radio are all in this amazing tribute video, produced and edited in-house at Lyric Street Records, a chronicle of friends, hard work, talent and dedication, the key ingredients of any success!

Rascal Flatts, Tim and Keith Urban News

Rascal Flatts have added additional dates to their “Bob That Head Tour” that will take the tour through November 2, 2008 with opening act Taylor Swift. Shows set for this upcoming weekend include sell-outs at Hartford’s New England Dodge Music Center and Hershey’s Giant Center with 50,000 fans in attendance. Remaining dates in 2008 include:

8-22 Hartford, CT New England Dodge Music Center
8-23 Scranton, PA Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mtn
8-24 Hershey, PA Giant Center
8-29 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
8-30 Pittsburgh, PA Post Gazette Pavilion
8-31 Syracuse, NY New York State Fair
9-11 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
9-12 Philadelphia, PA Susquehanna Bank Center
9-13 Mansfield, MA Tweeter Center
9-18 Louisville, KY Freedom Hall
9-19 Peoria, IL Peoria Civic Center
9-20 Detroit, MI The Palace
9-25 Tulsa, OK BOK Center
9-26 Bossier City, LA CenturyTel Center
10-9 Omaha, NE Qwest Center
10-10 St Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
10-11 Green Bay, WI Resch Center
10-23 Columbia, SC Colonial Center
10-24 Knoxville, TN Thompson Boling Arena
11-2 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun
11-3 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun

Tim McGraw heads back to Rayville, Louisiana on Saturday, September 13, 2008 to host Swampstock 2008 presented by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s Neighbor’s Keeper Foundation. Net proceeds from the activities will benefit the Neighbor’s Keeper Foundation’s local initiatives.

This year’s event will host a new location for the nightly concert on the steps of the Richland Parish Courthouse and will feature performances by Catherine Raney, Halfway to Hazard, Dierks Bentley, Jason Aldean, Faith Hill and McGraw.

And for the first time Habitat for Humanity of Ouachita will be an additional partner with Swampstock on a community build beginning September 9 and wrapping Saturday, September 13 to refurbish the Rayville Recreation Center.

“We are anxious to return this year with an amazing line up of artists,” says McGraw. “In addition to supporting Rayville Youth Baseball and the Steve Colvin Scholarships, it’s a great to add Habitat for Humanity of Ouachita and keep the focus on helping the local community. I’m encouraging everyone to help us make this one of the most successful Swampstock’s ever.”

KC Masterpiece and Kingsford, recent sponsors of McGraw’s “Live Your Voice Tour,” will also help “fire up” Swampstock as a sponsor and support the Habitat Build.

CMT.COM reports that Keith Urban will duet with countrywoman, Olivia Newton-John, on her forthcoming album, Olivia Newton-John & Friends: A Celebration in Song.

The two will sing "Sunburned Country," a song they co-wrote for an earlier album of Newton-John's "Olivia (2)." Royalties from her new project are being donated to the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Center, a comprehensive center for the treatment, care and research of all types of cancer. The album, comes out Sept. 2, is important to Newton-John, 60, a breast cancer survivor herself, and will also include pairings with musical friends such as Sir Cliff Richard, Barry Gibb, John Farrar Delta Goodrem and Richard Marx.